Near the end of last night's episode of Saturday Night Live, something unusual happened. As Ashley Padilla, playing a painfully square high-school teacher named Ms. Perry, intercepted a note from one of her students, a graphic flashed across the screen: 'The Contents Of These Notes Have Been Changed Since Rehearsal.' Standing next to the night's host, Ryan Gosling, who was playing the school principal, she announced her next step: 'You know my rule. If I catch you passing a note, I'm gonna read it out loud.' The note, she found, was about her'a student had caught her asking ChatGPT for makeover tips. The laughter Padilla failed to stifle while reading it suggested that the graphic was telling the truth. She really seemed to be seeing these words for the first time. Gosling and Padilla's fellow cast member Mikey Day also seemed surprised when it was their turn to unfold a sheet of loose leaf and divulge its secrets. Their barely concealed grins and guffaws'breaking, in comedy...
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